Gallery: Outdoors_2001

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Skiing near Mt Baker, January 27-28

	At the cars, ready to go.		Marie with a wintery Shuksan in the background.
	Tom and Andrew managing the down in the tent.		Still in the tent.
	We camped right on a knoll so that we would have good views. We had great views in the evening.		The morning was overcast and camp was windy.
	We toured toward Coleman Pinicle. Here's Sean on a broad, wind swept pass.		Marie looking good in the backcountry.
	Thomas on the pass.		Climbing up the ridge with good snow.
	Packing to go home.

Skiing near Lake Janus, February 17-18

On President's day weekend Paul, James, and I did a three day trip to the area around Lake Janus, near Steven's Pass. A fair amount of new snow had just fallen and breaking trail was an incredable amount of work. We didn't find a lot of good skiing, but it was beautiful to be out for 3 days.

	Smith Brook Road. Fortunately other partys had broken the trail here.		Climbing through the forest toward Union Meadows.
	Tick going in Union Meadows as we break trail up toward Union Gap.		From Union Gap I thought it would be easy going down hill. Instead we decide that an uphill traverse would be better and have to battle our way thorugh many of these open slopes deep in new snow.
	Camp we made, about a half hour short of Lake Janus.		Paul in his tent.
	James and I in ours.

The second day we toured to the ridge west of Lake janus. There were some promising looking slopes, but thick going, avalanch hazzard, and afternoon sun prevented us from finding much great skiing.

	Snowy trees near Lake Janus.		The near mythical lake itself.
	The upper glades on Jove Peak. This is where the good skiing would have been.		More uphill work to gain the ridge.
	James on the ridge.		James on a short steep slope.
	A very nice treed run that we skied several times.

The third day started with fog and cleared by the afternoon. We packed camp and started heading out early. We took one unsatisfying run on the slopes above our camp. Latter Paul and I took another run on a steep west facing slope with challenging terrain. It was just what I needed to feel satisfied about the day.

	Some ridges off to the north west which would make a good objective for another trip.		Cutting track back up the slope Paul and I skied.
	Sun in Union Meadows.		James on the road out. There was a nice packed track which we were able to run. We covered the 3 miles of road in 10 minutes or so. What a ride.
	Back country snowboarding. Is the pain worth it?

My old Dana Teraplane backpack.

This pack went on many great trips with me but now it is suffering from mutiple failuers. Seams are pulling out, zippers don't work, the fabric has holes, the fabrick is wore out from being in the sun too long. It is not the pack it once was. Still, it is with some sadness and sense of loss that I part with the pack.

Back.

Front.

Mount Maude's Entiate Ice fall, July 14th.

	Leroy basin.		We camped up on the bench but came down to the lake for dinner.
	Breatfast at 4am.		Stoping to put on gear at the pass before droping down to the base of the icefall.
	The Entiat Ice Fall from the base. We climbed the easier ramp to the right.		The headwall. About 80deg, then 50 deg to the col.
	Me at the col		Andrew on the summit.
	Tom on the summit.

Stuart North Ridge, July 24th, 2001

	Stuart from Ingals Pass. Mick Scott is my climbing partner. Weather was overcast and drizzel on the morning, but cleared during the day.		The beautiful outlet of Ingals lake.
	The North Ridge from Goat Pass. We climbed just the easy middle section from the access gully on the left to the base of the Great Gendarm on the right.		Entrance to the gully.
	Mick climbing in the access gully. "A few bouldery moves."		Mick at the top of the gully. There are several bivi sites up here.
	Mick leading on the second pitch.		After 5 pitches it was 7pm and we stoped to put on some more warm clothing. Beautiful evening light.
	Same spot.		Mich on the last pitch before the bivi. John "runs-it-out" ONeil called this the "Fun Friction Pitch".
	Same place. Jim Nelson has a picture of himself at about this spot.		Mich on the bivi ledge.
	Me on the bivi ledge		The upper north ridge as seen from the base of the Great Gendarm
	Me about to lead the gully pitch. The gully had hard snow and verglass. The pitch finishes on the cresent ledges behind me.		The scramble to the summit. We ended up doing half a pitch of climbing to top out.
	Mich on the summit.		Me on the summit.
	Bivi site I slept in 6 years ago when we didn't make it back to camp.		The upper pitches from a different angle.
	Two balanced rocks, one on Sherpa and the further one in the "Nightmare Crags"		The route down the cascadian coulior. I descended it twice this year and promised myself two years off.
	Tight switchbacks going up to Longs Pass.

Bunsbies.

Kayaking on the west coast of Vancouver island from Esparanza Inlet to the Brooks pensula.

Marie on Observation Rock. (all photos by Jeff Street)

	View of Toilet Bowel Lake below Observation Rock.		Second pitch.
	Marie leading out on second pitch.		Third Pitch
	Marie tops out.

Marie and I try Del Campo

	Looking up the long vally to DelCampo.		We passed through some beautiful little meadows on the way.
	This picture gives some sense of the complexity of the summit area.		Me and my headgear.
	Marie working her way up the snowfield.		We turned around here, realizing that we were moving too slowly. We would have gone up the snow ramp and through the notch on the ridge.
	Coming back down through the brush.		River.

Intermediate climb of Liberty Bell

	The approach, beautiful colors and light.		Marie and some yellow larch.
	Marie at the crux.

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